Missions Quotes - Page 17

• As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

  Jessica Jackley

  Night, Focus, Entrepreneur

  "PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: "I've Never Heard Someone Say 'An Expectant Father/CEO Will Fail'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

  Wayne Dyer

  Doe, Purpose, May

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• President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before.

  Craig Kilborn

  Moon, Men, President

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• When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Religious, Home, World

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• And this is the mission of the church--not civilization, but salvation--not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but first, the "kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Heart, Law, Civilization

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• It's in my music, and its on my mind all the time. To spread love, healing peace and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

  India.Arie

  Healing, Joy, Mind

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church.

  Kennon Callahan

  Live Life, Our World, Differences

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• Human ambitions are like Japanese carp; they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Dream, Ambition, Achievement

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.39, Crown Business

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• There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this government to conduct signals intelligence and the ability of this government to carry out its mission of protecting national security information from hostile exploitation.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Real, Government, Information

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• Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

  Merlin Mann

  Attention, Mission Statement, Humans

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• The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

  Arthur Miller

  People, Theatre, Consciousness

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• There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Space, Doubt

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The science of yoga saved my life, and I've seen it save many other lives, no matter how dark and hopeless it might feel for someone, there is a pathway forward towards stability and empowerment ... toward creating a new and more meaningful identity and mission in life.

  Brad Willis

  Life, Meaningful, Yoga

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• I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an artist, to be a seer. The mission of my life is to enjoy every single moment of my life.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Single Mom, Artist, Enjoy Life

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• Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

  Alicia Keys

  Love, Music, Laughter

  "Jay Z brings the A-list for Tidal streaming". www.cnbc.com. March 30, 2015.

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• The Iranians are not going to cede any kind of power. They're not going to cede any kind of control. [Hassan] Rouhani used to be the nuclear negotiator. Any YouTube saying this is our mission to become nuclear. He's not going to change his mind.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mind, Nuclear, Hassan

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.

  Tina Fey

  Home, Iraq, President

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• My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

  Mel Brooks

  Jobs, People, Laughing

  "Q&A with Mel Brooks". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, beta.latimes.com. May 19, 2008.

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• A third advantage of mission oriented companies, is that people outside the company are more willing to help you.

  Sam Altman

  People, Helping, Advantage

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• There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

  Sam Altman

  Pain, Matter, Way

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• We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, People, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Thinking, Media, Stories

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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• I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Thinking, Church, Tribes

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.

  Gene Kranz

  Mean, Responsibility, Skills

  "Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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• It seems amazing that the Navy SEALs managed to get inside the compound and shoot Osama so efficiently. I can only imagine they were told that the mission was to rescue a bearded British hostage and he must be brought out alive.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Navy

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